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by Quisp on Oct 23, 2010 4:51 PM PDT
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PrintKovalchuk is a Healthy Scratch?
via Tom Gulitti tweet, Devils say Ilya Kovalchuk is a healthy scratch.
Sean Leahy (Sean_Leahy) on Twitter
Sean_Leahy Sean Leahy Devils are just trying keep Kovy as fresh as possible for the remaining 15 years. It's a marathon, not a sprint ya know?
Interview with Jonathan Bernier of the LA Kings | Hockey Independent
QUESTION: Let’s test your Kings knowledge – can you name five players that wore the purple and gold jerseys?JB: Rogie Vachon. (we laughed about him having to go goalie first). Dave Taylor. That’s about it. I guess I’m not a real hockey fan - I just play the game. (a lot more laughter)
Vey and Harrison lead Medicine Hat Tigers to 9-2 victory over Raiders@ - USATODAY.com
[Kings prospect] Linden Vey and Ryan Harrison both scored twice and added an assist as the Medicine Hat Tigers beat up on the Prince Albert Raiders 9-2 in Western Hockey League play Friday night. Emerson Etem had a pair of goals for Medicine Hat (6-3-0), while Thomas Carr and Cole Grbavac both tallied and added two assists. Captain Wacey Hamilton scored and added an assist as well.
Pats in a shutout win
[Kings prospect] Jordan Weal did the dirty work, driving to the middle and slipping a pass in front to Thomas Frazee, who dropped it off to Carter Ashton beside the net for an easy goal.
St. Cloud State tops Gophers hockey 5-2 " Breaking News & Updates
St. Cloud State sophomore goalie Mike Lee was on his game and the Minnesota Golden Gophers followed a familiar script Friday, as the Huskies beat Minnesota 5-2 in Western Collegiate Hockey Association play. Lee made 40 saves and five different St. Cloud State players scored goals. "We needed this effort tonight," Lee said. "Our defense makes my job easy." Lee had 27 saves in the first two periods as the Huskies (2-2-1, 1-0-0) built a 5-0 lead. Jared Festler and Tony Mosey had power-play goals and Garrett Roe scored short-handed. Brian Volpei and [Kings prospect] Nic Dowd also scored their first goals.
Coach Terry Murray pinpoints to Kings' power-play problems - Page 2 - Los Angeles Times
Defenseman Willie Mitchell, who played only 48 games last season after suffering a severe concussion, was in a difficult spot Wednesday when Doughty suffered his head injury in a collision with Carolina's Erik Cole. Doughty is Mitchell's defense partner, but Cole is his former college teammate at Clarkson. Mitchell said he didn't think the incident warranted a penalty; none was called and the NHL didn't impose supplementary discipline."It's tough for me to comment because that's my best friend who hit him on the other side," Mitchell said. "I talked to him after the game. It was an accident. He was turning one way and Drew was turning the other way and they both ran into each other. You feel bad about it, that's for sure."
Mitchell also said he had talked to Doughty and would gladly advise him through his recovery. "Being a veteran player and having a few injuries, hopefully I'm a springboard for him as far as bouncing a few feelings or opinions on stuff," he said.
As far as I know, that's the first anyone in the Kings organization has used the word concussion.
Also, Jake Muzzin has been assigned to Manchester. I choose to believe this means nothing. He's waiver-exempt and can be recalled any time.
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I am watching Buffalo-NJD right now, just to make sure I take some advantage of the Center Ice free preview. I recall one of the ILWT goons claiming that their goaltending would be fine with Hedberg backing up Brodeur. Well, Hedberg gave up 4 goals in 30 minutes and got pulled for Brodeur.
Word is that IK did not participate in the pre-game skate.
And that Sean Leahy Tweet = teh funny. :-)
"Prepare your bladder for imminent release!" — Invader Zim
Does anyone remember....
I said how I wouldn’t want Kovalchuk on the Kings and I was glad they didn’t get him?
Apparently his coach agrees with me at least for tonite anyway.
Nice to be right once in a while anyways.
You can cry a million tears
You can wait a million years
If you think that time will change your ways
Don't wait too long
by Joe Hockey Fan on Oct 23, 2010 10:09 PM PDT reply actions
Found one instance...
I am a Kings fan. I posted here more than once that I did not want Kovalchuk on the Kings. Fortunately the Kings did not sign him, but if they had I would have attacked the contract, not defended it.
by Joe Hockey Fan on Jul 27, 2010 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
You can cry a million tears
You can wait a million years
If you think that time will change your ways
Don't wait too long
by Joe Hockey Fan on Oct 23, 2010 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions
lol
As I recall not too many agreed with me. I still say he’s a great scorer but not what the Kings needed. (Nor anyone else, apparently…)
You can cry a million tears
You can wait a million years
If you think that time will change your ways
Don't wait too long
by Joe Hockey Fan on Oct 24, 2010 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions
As a fellow Quebecois, I’ll admit I was a little disappointed that Bernier couldn’t remember Marcel friggin’ Dionne. But that’s fine, because that news tidbit will get buried under that fabulously epic Kofailchuck.
by Passemoilapuck on Oct 23, 2010 10:12 PM PDT reply actions
to be fair, he probably doesn't even know that the kings wore purple all the way up until gretzky
he probably thinks robitaille started in silver and black. he knows who jim fox is. but he probably doesn’t think he’s that old.
rogie is a famous goalie, and a famous habs goalie, and a famous french-canadian, so it makes sense that he knew that name despite it being the name of an old person.
remember when drew doughty — bless his pointy little head — said something about how bobby orr was one of the best defensemen, when of course the correct answer is that he was the best hockey player ever period (I’m old, sorry)?
well, doughty is 21. bernier is 22. these are children. marcel dionne to bernier is some guy who played mostly ten years before he was born — maybe he (now?) knows Dionne was a father figure to luc robitaille, and robitaille could be a father figure to…bernier? I don’t know if he is or isn’t…but the point is, dionne is hockey grandpa.
i’m trying to think of, if you asked me at 22, which hockey players i remember from a specific team I didn’t grow up rooting for…my answers would have gone back about 15-17 years, to when I was more or less 5. dionne to bernier is like, i don’t know, harry howell or someone. sid abel. people i read about.
by that math, bernier’s real hockey memory probably goes back to about 1995.
i’m sure i’m over-thinking this, but i haven’t had coffee yet. the short version: i’m old and he’s not.
Wait till this year.
I guess you have a point… My early hockey memories were somewhat closely linked to my O-Pee-Chee hockey card collection, which peaked in the ’79-82 period. And I probably remember the funny names and funny faces as much as the legendary players – Harold Snepsts, King Kong Korab, Dino Ciccarelli, Borje Salming, etc.
But I guess I had a better shot at remembering Dionne, because I owned THIS card as a kid.
And maybe Jonathan didn’t have much time to brush up on all these old ex players, because he’s been busy playing the game and training to make it to where he is today. I had, let’s say, a little more free time. ;-)
by Passemoilapuck on Oct 24, 2010 9:59 AM PDT up reply actions
I think we all have our peak eras, which for me is when I was 8-11, which covers the early mid 70s.
I know stuff about events that came after, and I eventually did my homework on what came before, but my brain is full of obscure facts about, say, the Saturday night CBS schedule in 1972, or the Detroit Tigers line-up from 1974, or the order in which breakfast cereals were released, when “Kung Fu Fighting” was released, or which artists drew which issues of Spiderman up till about #130…
And a lot of those memories are anchored by objects, like your dionne card. I remember buying the 7" single of the f***ing Laverne and Shirley theme song. etc…
For kids like Bernier, movies probably start somewhere after Free Willy, music is all post-Cobain, and Gretzky was old. He’s firmly in that Brodeur, Lindros, Bure era.
Wait till this year.
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